Scholarly research has demonstrated rather conclusively that American political elites have
undergone a marked partisan polarization over the past thirty years. There is less …

One of the most remarkable democratic developments in Europe in recent decades has
been the empowerment of the only directly elected supranational assembly in the world: the …

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

I develop a method to measure the ideology of candidates and contributors using campaign
finance data. Combined with a data set of over 100 million contribution records from state …

American Rage argues that anger is the central emotion governing contemporary US
politics, with powerful, deleterious effects. Tracing the developments that have given rise to a …

Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in
Washington, DC Reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have begun to …

We propose a theory of political parties in which interest groups and activists are the key
actors, and coalitions of groups develop common agendas and screen candidates for party …

During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid
government of lobbyists' undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change …

Existing approaches to estimating politicians' latent positions along specific dimensions
often fail when relevant data is limited. We leverage the embedded knowledge in generative …

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner
workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Re-evaluating the …